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    Default Re: Entry level Italian Fountain pen

    Good entry level Italian pens: Visconti Rembrandt, Delta Unica, Delta Serena, Delta Italiana, Monegrappa Parola. To name but a few. I have had many problems with the entry level pens from Aurora - misaligned nibs, even on the more expensive Ipsilon with a gold nib.

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    ++1 on the Visconti Rembrandt!
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    Rembrandt's are a terrible pen in my experience.
    First nib/feed I had wrote dry and skipped. Received a replacement, which also writes dry and skips (All flushed with water/dish soap/ammonia. Tried Waterman, Diamine, Parker, Montblanc, Visconti inks).
    Also had the metal cap band come off after taking the pen out of my pen box. Amazingly it wasn't glued, just friction fit.
    The Visconti branded converter doesn't 'quite' fit. You'll screw the barrel on to the pen ok, but in doing so it turns the piston in the converter, dumping a load of ink into the feed.

    The Delta Unica on the other hand is a great pen for half the price of the Rembrandt. It wrote well and wet straight out of the box, and is now my EDC with Visconti Blue ink living in it permanantly.

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    Default Re: Entry level Italian Fountain pen

    I love my Visconti Rembrandt, but I had the nib tuned and reground from a M to an EF by Dromgoole's Nib Doctor. I have tried a Delta Fusion nib and did not like it at all. It seemed very dry. I also tried an Aurora Ipsilon with a steel nib, and I liked it better than the Aurora with the gold nib (go figure).
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    Default Re: Entry level Italian Fountain pen

    Quote Originally Posted by Ste_S View Post
    Rembrandt's are a terrible pen in my experience.
    The Visconti branded converter doesn't 'quite' fit. You'll screw the barrel on to the pen ok, but in doing so it turns the piston in the converter, dumping a load of ink into the feed.
    That sounds suspiciously like some-one has possibly swapped a rollerball barrel which may have a bit of wading or plug in the end of the barrel to hold the rollerball refill inplace and this could be 'grabbing' the end of the converter piston when you are screwing the barrel into the section.
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